Scania reviews

4.1

80% would recommend to a friend

(943 total reviews)

Christian Levin

89% approve of CEO

67% positive business outlook

Scania has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 943 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Scania employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufactura industry (3.5 stars).

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943 reviews
4.0
Jul 6, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

It's led by engineers, giving a very good and stable environment for those who like to do their job and work with really serious people. Work/life balance is excellent. Very good respect for people, at least outside of production. Benefits (except for the usual Swedish ones) are good, especially if you do sports, cultural stuff or car fixing. Good senior management, many enthusiastic and good people dedicated to their job. Job security second to none.

Cons

Younger first line management sometimes more concerned with using buzzwords correctly and limiting their risks while sweet-talking than being realistic and work with what they got to produce the best. Their ability to walk the talk is low. Little product/customer knowledge in many parts of the development. Also, especially, at younger management. This may be a long term way to just mediocre products while ramping up. If you're kidless, not interested in the company sports/culture/etc events, and don't care too much about the organisational stuff, well, you can certainly find much better paid jobs elsewhere. And advance faster. Job security sometimes too good... Rotten apples remain and spoil the other good ones.

5.0
Aug 7, 2009

Great place to work

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The company understands the value of all employees. The possibilities to switch to new challenging positions are impressive, at least if you think that stepping sideways can be as rewarding as advancing up in the hierarchy.

Cons

Although underrated, Södertälje is not the most interesting of cities. Salaries could indeed be better and in some places you will find a reluctance to change.

5.0
Aug 28, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

You get really interesting and diverse tasks. Management shows great confidence in their employees and it is pretty much upp to the employee to take as much responsibility as you see fit. There is an ambience of success and self confidence at Scania. It is easy to be proud of the products that we develop. It is easy to communicate across the organisation. Management is supportive of personal development. A lot of resources are put into employee development, there is a whole separate organisation for education and Scania pays for truck driving licenses. Scania has a pretty good facility for sport activities, free for employees and next to free for next of kin.

Cons

Location, location, location! Södertälje is one of the most dull places I have been to. Commute to Stockholm is slow and time consuming considering that the distance is fairly small. Allthough it may be good for Scania as a company that research and development is concentrated to Södertälje it also means that the posibilities for postings outside of Sweden are slim at best. The salaries can hardly be described as the highest in the field.

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